The Brevity of Life

               It never ceases to amaze me how quickly time passes.  I look at my children and see how they have grown as it seems almost overnight.  My and Ruth’s youngest son will be two years old in January, and yet, it feels as if he were just born.  Time does indeed fly by. 

                In James 4:14, we are reminded how short our lives truly are.  James says that one’s life is as “a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

We are told in Hebrews 9:27 that “it is